Loren Coleman: Bigfoot IS Real

Getting ready to watch my shortstop son's Brandeis University baseball team.

His interviews have appeared on
the Animal Planet,
Discovery-Science, Discovery, A & E, The Learning Channel, History, Sci-Fi Channel, Travel Channel, Fox News, CBC, CNN, ITN, Sky News, and BBC.

I am an antiwar Vietnam-era C.O. and pacifist, in which I had to fight my draft board,

get letters of support from Bucky Fuller and Ivan Sanderson into my draft file,

was arrested by the FBI for refusing the draft, ended up winning in court,

and volunteered and did two years of alternative work in a juvenile hall
in Illinois.

The

NEW AMERICAN DREAM
Interview

LOREN COLEMAN, who was born in 1947, today lives in Portland, Maine.

He was educated in anthropology and zoology at Southern Illinois University, and psychiatric social work at Simmons College School of Social Work in Boston.

He was admitted to the Ph. D. programs in social anthropology at Brandeis University and family violence-sociology at the University of New Hampshire, but with the birth of two sons soon after joining both programs four years apart, he decided to dedicate himself to parenting and writing, instead.

Coleman worked in human services, in a frontline and supervisory capacity from 1967 until 1983.

He began teaching documentary film, anthropology, social work, research, and sociology courses, part-time and full-time, at universities (Bunker Hill Community College, Boston University, University of Southern Maine, University of New England, St. Joseph's College, and Southern Maine Community College) from 1980 through 2003.

He was a senior researcher at the Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Policy from 1983-1996. He retired in 1996, from full-time research to write, lecture, adjunct teach, and consult on his many interests.

He is internationally known for his research and writings on animal mysteries, folklore, and yet-to-be-discovered species, known as the study of cryptozoology.

He furthermore has written extensively on social science subjects including child maltreatment, adoption, suicides, school violence, the media and the copycat effect.

He also has lectured and done research on the mysterious deaths and suicides associated with the political assassinations of the 1960s of JFK, MLK, and RFK.

Loren Coleman appears frequently on television and the radio in interviews about Bigfoot, Yeti, Skunk Apes, Loch Ness Monster, and other cryptids.

Outside the USA, he has done many radio and television news programs about school shootings and the effect of the media on violence.

He has consulted on cultic behavior, as well.

His interviews have appeared on the Animal Planet, Discovery-Science, Discovery, A & E, The Learning Channel, History, Sci-Fi Channel, Travel Channel, Fox News, CBC, CNN, ITN, Sky News, and BBC.

He is the author of over 30 books, 3000 articles, and 6000 blog postings.

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The New American Dream Trivia Question:

To win a round button that says, "Bush Is Lying About What He Knew,"
be the first one to correctly answer the following.

Loren Coleman would rather be ...

a. Fishing for crappies in a rowboat at Loch Ness

b. In search of the great American novel

c. Obama's Secretary of The As Yet Unknown

d. Teaching Theory of Magical Creatures at Hogwarts

e. Sitting in the dark by himself in Oregon wearing the Bionic Ears he got for Christmas

f. Knee-deep in yellow snow in the Himalayas

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NAD: Loren, hello, thank you for taking the time for this.

Where did you grow up?


LOREN COLEMAN:

Well, this might be interesting. Let's see where this takes us.

I was born in Norfolk, Virginia (father in the Navy), but my family left there when I was 3 months old, moving back to their home state.

I thus grew up in Decatur, Illinois, and lived there until I first went to college in Carbondale, Illinois. (I never came back home, really, after that, as my father was an abusive man, both physically and emotionally. I eventually got a MSW, I'm sure, as a form of healing, plus lots of therapy.)




NAD: What was the name of your high school?


LOREN COLEMAN:

Douglas MacArthur High School



NAD: What was the school mascot name?


LOREN COLEMAN:

Believe it or not, the Generals.

My family was allegedly too poor to have senior pictures taken, and I was too shy, intellectually introverted, and socially unconscious to want to be in the yearbook.

NAD: What was on the list of activities under your senior picture in the yearbook?


LOREN COLEMAN:

There were no activities listed under my senior picture.

There is no senior picture in my 1965 high school yearbook of me.

My family was allegedly too poor to have senior pictures taken, and I was too shy, intellectually introverted, and socially unconscious to want to be in the yearbook.

In my high school Frosh and Soph years, I had been in the German club, the Science club, and the AVA club. I was a bright nerd even before it was cool, apparently.

I merely disappeared off the radar as a Junior and Senior, as I recall.




NAD: What did you start out wanting to be?


LOREN COLEMAN:

A naturalist, since I was about eight years old.

I remember reading Roy Chapman Andrews and Raymond Ditmars, and realizing I wanted to be something like those guys when I grew up.

Books were a great form of escapism from the situation of my surroundings.

I was the oldest of four, and was expected to take care of my brothers and sister, but sometimes also ended up taking care of fights between my mother and father, or even counseling my mom.



NAD: Is there still time?


LOREN COLEMAN:

I achieved my goal by going one better than naturalist, I figured, by being a cryptozoologist — broad-based, of course.

I am sometimes in deep turmoil because I never went on for a Ph. D., but I am very happy, in my life and mind, that I picked being a good Dad, over that degree.

Thinking back, btw, at Southern Illinois University, home of the Salukis, I began there as a government studies major, for some reason, because I liked "social studies" in high school, perhaps.

I tried out a few other things, but eventually landed upon anthropology, after knowing that the Yeti and apes were the path nearest to what I wanted to study.

I don't remember much about college, but I recall I was a struggling sophomore there in 1967, when the school became the focus of the sports media world due to Walt Frazier's appearance in the NIT basketball tourney. Frazier and SIU won the NIT that year, and Frazier was named MVP.

I was more interested in baseball and anthropology, eventually girls/women.

I remember that the only job I've ever been fired from was at SIU, when I was working in the SIU mailroom. I had gone to a Saluki's baseball game, lost track of the time, and when I came back, my boss was angry with me for my tardiness and fired me.

I never regretted that, however, as I still respect baseball enough to stay to the end of the game.

While at SIU, I pushed my way out of the little world of Decatur. For that, I shall always be thankful.





NAD: Anthropology, zoology, sociology, and now Bigfoot. I guess it follows.


LOREN COLEMAN:

No, actually, it was the other way around.

Yeti was there in 1960. Bigfoot came quickly in 1960-1961.

Then I picked a university in 1965, based upon reports of apelike creatures in southern Illinois.

I picked anthropology in 1966 or so.

I took on a minor in zoology, to add the "physical" part to "physical anthropology," back then.

Today, it is mostly called "biological anthropology."

I was curious. I went to my teachers at school on Monday, and asked them,
"What is this about the Abominable Snowman."

They were universal in telling me,
"Don't waste your time.

"They don't exist.
Don't read about them."

NAD: What got you started along the Bigfoot path?


LOREN COLEMAN:

I was a serious genius, having tested highly before getting into junior high, and was deeply interested in social studies, and especially the Civil War, Lincoln's assassination, Charles Fort, and keeping my own backyard zoo, in the late 1950s.

Then in March 1960, on a Friday night, then again on a Saturday morning, I watched a documentary-like science fiction movie, filmed among the Ainu, called Half Human. It was about the Abominable Snowmen. Look it up. It has a compelling plot.

My beginnings is a story I have told often: I was curious. I went to my teachers at school on Monday, and asked them, "What is this about the Abominable Snowman." They were universal in telling me, "Don't waste your time. They don't exist. Don't read about them."

So, questioning authority way back then, I read everything I could get my hands on about the Yeti, then Bigfoot, then the Loch Ness Monster, then Sea Serpents. I opened up the entire world of cryptozoology.

And I truly felt I had found "my home."





NAD: The path not taken. And that has made all the difference?


LOREN COLEMAN:

Well, I think it is the path that was taken that has made the difference.

The sidetreks I have taken away from cryptozoology, most of the time, have felt less clear, in terms of my destiny, if there is such a thing.

Certainly, hard work to achieve has been the driving principal too.

Cryptozoology took me to a career, eventually, that I am extremely happy to have (although I wish it was associated with more financial rewards - still working on that).





NAD: How do you like being an expert on something you don't even know yourself, it it exists or not?


LOREN COLEMAN:

Animals do exist, and I know they do.

New animals are found all the time, and the cryptozoological method involving listening to local people, analyzing traces of the animals, and encountering and proving the species exist is not magical thinking.

I feel very grounded in this field, despite wrong-headed assumptions that lead to questions like the above one.

Yes, of course, Bigfoot is "real,"
for even if the discovery of a breeding population of large bipedal
apes does not occur someday,
the reality of the phenomenon
of Bigfoot cannot be denied.

They appear in tales, traditions, folklore, movies, books, and ads.

Bigfoot is undeniably real.

NAD: Would you like to choose one of these to answer, elaborate on?

I don't ask this to make fun. I ask because I really seek the answers.

— Are UFOs real?
— Did we land on the moon in 1968?
— Did Bush knock down the towers?
— Was Paul Wellstone's death an accident?
— The Oklahoma City bombing? Wasn't that just another U.S. government terrorist exercise? Or not.
— Waco. We burned kids, right? You can see flames shooting out of the tanks. Or not.
— Is Bigfoot real?
— Is there a God?



LOREN COLEMAN:

I would not naturally "choose" to answer any of this, as they all might be answered most correctly with a "I don't know."

However, I shall pick this one, because it gives me the opportunity to address it and it is asked of me a great deal.

Yes, of course, Bigfoot is "real," for even if the discovery of a breeding population of large bipedal apes does not occur someday, the reality of the phenomenon of Bigfoot cannot be denied.

They appear in tales, traditions, folklore, movies, books, and ads. Bigfoot is undeniably real.




NAD: Have you seen Bigfoot?


LOREN COLEMAN:

No, not as a known and proven species, but merely as reflected as a cryptid in cryptozoology, hominology, and popular culture.





NAD: Do you go out looking?

LOREN COLEMAN:

Yes.

I have searched throughout North America with Bigfoot hunters, eyewitnesses, and those who have had chance encounters.

My in-depth fieldwork dates back to 1962, but has slowed down since I broke my back when rockclimbing 15 years ago.

I did years and years of fieldwork before it was fashionable to write up every weekend trip or vacation trek one might take on an Internet blog.





NAD: Do you live near the woods?


LOREN COLEMAN:

I live in a coastal city of 60,000, in the middle of one of the most forested states of the USA. In total, 95 percent of the land surface of Maine is covered in trees, and while I have lived among the soybeans and cornfields of Illinois, in an urban area of northern California, and in the urban setting of Cambridge-Boston, I am quite happy to have lived in Maine for the last twenty-five years.




NAD: Bigfoot & Loch Ness Monster. Tell us, once and for all, are they fantasy or real?


LOREN COLEMAN:

I accept the fact that a continued pursuit of these two cryptids is in the best interest of zoology.

Needless to say, it should be pointed out, there is not just "one" of each, but populations of both, if they exist.

But, once again, I am comfortable with saying, "I don't know."





NAD: UFOs. Tell us, once and for all, are they fantasy or real?


LOREN COLEMAN:

I have no opinion on these, as they are outside my areas of interest.





NAD: Please tell us more about yourself, the things you have done, what you would like to do, what you did today. What do you eat, what do you drive, what do you drink.


LOREN COLEMAN:

I see myself, more than anything else, as a "good Dad," much different than my "father."

My sons, although I guard that part of my private life dearly from the public, are all important to me.

If you saw me out in public, versus on television, in the last two decades, it probably was at one of my sons' baseball games, or soccer tournaments, or school events, or African drum performances.

I am passionate about this part of my life but keep it private.

To understand me, one has to also know my history: I am an antiwar Vietnam-era C.O. and pacifist, in which I had to fight my draft board, get letters of support from Bucky Fuller and Ivan Sanderson into my draft file, was arrested by the FBI for refusing the draft, ended up winning in court, and volunteered and did two years of alternative work in a juvenile hall in Illinois.

I am highly political, in my personal life and lifestyle.

I very much enjoy traveling, in line with my cryptozoological investigations, consulting, appearances, and lectures.

I don't go places without thinking if there is a nature area to view animals near where I am speaking.

For example, when I lectured at the Royal Alberta Museum, I was the guest of the museum director, as we trekked to see wood bison a few miles from the musuem.

When talking recently in Colorado, I just had to go to the Rocky Mountains to see elk, mule deer, and bighorn sheep.

If I go to urban areas, I like baseball, movies, and zoos. (Are you sure this isn't a dating service? By the way, I am straight, a serial monogamist, and after two divorces since 1969, I am in a break mentality. However, unlike the line from Jurassic Park, I am not looking for the next "Mrs. Coleman." The trick truth to that is that I only marry feminists, and neither one of my wives became a "Mrs. Coleman." Right now, yes, I am looking for love, but not with any great urgency. I am not dating anyone, and do not like long walks on the beach.)


Eating: For my entire life, I have steered away from fish, shellfish, and most other meats.
But in 1993, I became a full-time, absolute vegetarian, and soon thereafter, due to the discover of my inability to digest creamy dairy products, I am now as close to a dietary vegan as I can be. I am not a vegan in the sense of not dealing with dead animals around me, as I enjoy taxidermy objects in my museum.

I've never smoked, never really enjoyed drinking, don't do drugs, and have not been interested in alcohol for about 30 plus years now. (However, back to the dating theme, I don't enjoy watching long sunsets, and would rather be out in the woods looking for black panthers, non-political kind, during a full moon.)

I drive a 1996 4W drive station green wagon, which has about 150,000 miles on it and gets me around just fine in the snow up here. I'd like to have a new car (a Jeep or Range Rover would be nice), but I enjoy not having car payments and owning a "new car" does not interest me.

I consider globe warming real, based upon humans and volcanoes, and would enjoy owning a hybrid engine placed in an old Rambler, frankly. I would actually love to get an old automobile that looks like it is out of the 1930s (although I loathe the widespread appearance of the PT Cruiser). Indeed, my museum that is my house is mostly art deco (yes, you don't have to be a gay male to enjoy art deco).



NAD: What color is your toothbrush? [Without going to look.] Automatic or manual?


LOREN COLEMAN:

I only use a manual toothbrush. I have several toothbrushes going at any one time (with a couple in various suitcases, those being solid white because I get them free or in the vending machines at hotels), the ones I have around here are solid colors too (e.g. canary yellow, blue).



NAD: Pajamas or sweatpants?


LOREN COLEMAN:

Neither. I sleep in underwear or nude, depending on the circumstances. TMI?




NAD: Does your favorite coffee cup have words on it? What are they?


LOREN COLEMAN:

I don't drink coffee, only tea. I have one large tea cup that has a Santa Claus on it, which I like, but it has no words on it.

I am a visual person, and enjoy images more than words on things linked to my eating and drinking, I guess. The majority of the time, I use one of my Fiestaware tea cups (usually green, red, navy blue, or bright yellow). I like variety in my tea cups.



NAD: What did you absolutely have to get done by noon today?


LOREN COLEMAN:

Besides finishing this interview?

If I am not away traveling, I have a regular routine of getting up, reading and responding to my emails, doing a little writing (blogs, books, or articles).

If those go smoothly, and I don't have any media interviews or morning radio show appearances (like one coming up tomorrow for a UK station), I usually go out to do errands and check my downtown post office mail daily.




NAD: How about by Christmas 2009?


LOREN COLEMAN:

Go to a Red Sox game with my 19-year-old and 23-year-old sons.

Finish up so many writing projects that are due that I don't want to think about that.

Travel to a warm place and investigate a cryptid there.

Some of my fans perhaps do not still realize that the shy boy is inside there,
but I am glad this cryptozoologist is on TV,
travels the world,
and has so many fine folks as friends today.

NAD: How cool is it to be on TV?


LOREN COLEMAN:

First off, since I have been on television since 1969, it has become sort of routine but still is special. Unfortunately, since there is no direct correlation to being on television (having fame) and rolling in dough (having fortune), that seems to be a disconnect that lots of people don't get.

It is very cool to be on television, and anyone that says otherwise is lying to themselves or the interviewer.

People actually recognize you in the weirdest places, and as to my minor celeb status, I love it.

Perhaps it is a bother for the "big stars," but I'm not in that league.

Personally and psychologically, for a quiet Midwestern working class son of a professional firefighter, my media appearances and speaking engagements have allowed me an avenue to grow and relate to people.

Some of my fans perhaps do not still realize that the shy boy is inside there, but I am glad this cryptozoologist is on TV, travels the world, and has so many fine folks as friends today.




NAD: Did you get a free History Channel coffee mug?


LOREN COLEMAN:

Nope, but I did receive a History Channel baseball cap, however. LOL.

I will always be proud that Cryptomundo was able to publish the first images that resulted (in ten minutes) with the finding of the costume that matched the "body in the freezer."

NAD: The Georgia hoax thing. Was that hard on you? On others in the Bigfoot field? Do you think it made people even more skeptical? Do you care?


LOREN COLEMAN:

It was only difficult for me because certain vocal critics didn't understand that my few early open-minded statements about what was being presented was due to my interest in obtaining more data to analyze and expose the hoax.

As it turns out, lots of people were involved in pushing this one to its eventual conclusion, but I will always be proud that Cryptomundo was able to publish the first images that resulted (in ten minutes) with the finding of the costume that matched the "body in the freezer."

I, along with Jeff Meldrum and Matt Moneymaker, were targeted by the unholy three who were involved in the hoaxing.

The Georgia hoaxers burned my Bigfoot! on YouTube, and made gay jokes and burned Moneymaker in effigy later in the same clip.

The California promoter who got involved said Meldrum wasn't an anthropologist at the CNN News conference (even though Meldrum is).

The Georgia incident was a fiasco, but in the end, it was me, Jeff, and Matt that CNN, Fox, and other media outlets quoted as saying this was a hoax very early on (before the fakery was exposed).

We, of course, were right.

People should be even more skeptical. While there is no room for blind debunking anymore than there is for blind true believing, good cryptozoology involves heavy doses of skepticism.

Yes, I care.




NAD: What else would you like to add? What are some of your books? Your blogs?


LOREN COLEMAN:

People are welcome to read my more elaborate discussions on many of these topics in my over 30 books, including:

Mysterious America (NY: Paraview Pocket - Simon and Schuster, 2006)

The Copycat Effect: How the Media and Popular Culture Trigger the Mayhem in Tomorrow's Headlines (NY: Paraview Pocket - Simon and Schuster, 2004)

Cryptozoology A to Z: The Encyclopedia of Loch Monsters, Sasquatch, Chupacabras, and Other Authentic Mysteries of Nature (NY: Simon and Schuster, 1999)

Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in America (NY: Paraview Pocket - Simon and Schuster, 2003)

The Field Guide to Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents, and Other Mystery Denizens of the Deep (NY: Tarcher/Penguin, 2003)

Tom Slick: True Life Encounters in Cryptozoology (Fresno, CA: Craven Street-Linden Press, 2002)

Mothman and Other Curious Encounters (NY: Paraview, 2002)


The Unidentified and Creatures of the Other Edge(NY: Anomalist Books, 2006).

The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates (NY: Anomalist Books, 2006)


They can read my words daily on my two blogs:

Cryptomundo

http://www.cryptomundo.com/

and

The Copycat Effect

http://copycateffect.blogspot.com/



Good talking to you.
Loren

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NAD Trivia Question Answer:


None of the above, because:

a. Loren is a near-vegan, and neither hunts, fishes, or eats any kind of meat. He, however, has spent time in a boat on Loch Ness, so apparently this would be the closest answer to reality.
b. Loren only writes nonfiction.
c. He does not wish to go into politics.
d. The nonfiction answer applies here too.
e. What are Bionic Ears? Why sit in the dark?
f. While Loren would enjoy going to the Himalayas, he would be more interested in taking samples of the "yellow snow" to test the urine for DNA, but then also, Loren understands that the Yeti is not to be found in the snows of the area but the montane valleys, so he would not be "knee-depth" in "it."

THE New American Dream Feature Interviews

If you search the archives below, you will find, in a sort of order [last to first], interviews with:


Monty Borror, Sci-Fi artist from Virginia

David Ray, Great American Poet

Jack Blood, radio show host, in Austin, Texas

Danny Schechter, A Real Reporter

Bob Kincaid, host, Head-On Radio Show

Tony Packes, Animal Farm Radio Host, Keeping An Eye on Big Brother

Richard Flamer, Working With the Poor in Chiapas

David Ray Griffin, 9/11 Truth activist author

Barry Crimmins, U.S. comedian, author, social activist

Bret Hayworth, political reporter for the Sioux City [IA] Journal

Lisa Casey, publisher of website All Hat No Cattle

Joe & Elaine Mayer, activist couple in Rochester, Minnesota

Fr. Darrell Rupiper, U.S. priest revolutionary

Whitney Trettien, MIT student, Green Party activist

Meria Heller, radio show host

Phil Hey, professor, poet

John Crawford, book publisher

Steve Moon, Iowa Bigfoot researcher

Carol Brouillet, California social activist, 9/11 Truth

Russell Brutsche, Santa Cruz artist

Kevin Barrett, professor, radio show host, 9/11 Truth activist

A'Jamal Rashad Byndon, social activist in Omaha

Chris Rooney, Vancouver, Canada Catholic Worker, website publisher

Marc Estrin, political novelist, from the left

Peter Dale Scott, poet, professor, author, activist

Anthony Rayson, anarchist zine publisher, works with prisoners

Alice Cherbonnier, editor of The Baltimore Chronicle, an independent newspaper

Monty Borror, artist from Virginia

I don't think there are enough people aware
of what a great platform these genres are for social commentary.

Anyone who doesn't agree has never seen
Night of the Living Dead or Bladerunner
and actually understood what they are about

Of course, working in these fields is just plain fun as well.

THE

New American Dream Interview

MONTY BORROR, 36, lives in Virginia.

He is an artist.

His work has included book covers, comics, web design.

Much of his work is in the horror, sci-fi, fantasy field.

By day he works as a designer and by night he becomes a comic book illustrator

Monty was born and raised in the southeast and went to school in Savannah and Charlotte.

His art has appeared in many galleries and shows throughout the east and Colorado.

He has no pets of his own.




NAD: Monty, hello, welcome.

How long have you wanted to become an artist? Have you become one yet?

What are you trying to do with your art?

What would you still like to do?

What is your strong point as an artist?

How about as a person?


MONTY BORROR:

I have been making art my entire life.

I was reading comics before I was old enough to actually read them.

I think I was born at the perfect time for comics because as I was growing up, so were they.

I have been working towards becoming a published artist and writer since my early twenties and finally my determination has begun to pay off.

I could be living just off of my art right now, but it would be a meager existence.

There are a number of projects I am involved with that are soon to be released to a wider, mainstream audience.

All of which happen to be great storytelling opportunities and that is what I care about most.

I think my strongest attribute is my approach to comics as not needing dialogue in order to tell the story.

The art should lead the reader to a determinable ending without having to say a word ...

I try to think these things through, both in art and life.




NAD: Why the horror, sci-fi, fantasy field?


MONTY BORROR:

All the horror and sci-fi I do is really about pushing my creative limits.

I don't thing there are enough people aware of what a great platform these genres are for social commentary.

Anyone who doesn't agree has never seen Night of the Living Dead or Bladerunner and actually understood what they are about ... Of course, working in these fields is just plain fun as well.




NAD: Are you trying to make a living with your art, and how is that working out for you?

It would be very cool to wake up in the morning and remember that your work today will consist of something you really, really want to do.

Are you there yet? Do you think you ever will be?

Does it matter?


MONTY BORROR:

I don't think it would matter if I was getting paid or not.

If I wasn't I would simply produce my own projects.

It takes a lot longer to got it alone but if that's all I had then I would do it with no regrets.

Money is definitely nice but it can't be the only motivation




NAD: What is your passion today?

When you woke up this morning, what did you feel you had to get done before supper
time?

Lunch time? Breakfast?


MONTY BORROR:

I've fallen in love with blogging. I write a blog every day about comic books.

It is the nerdiest thing I've ever done.

You can read it at comicoverlord.blogspot.com




NAD: Did Bush knock down the towers?


MONTY BORROR:

Because I don't have all the information I can't make an assumption.

I do have my suspicions but won't state them as if they were facts. I am inclined to believe it was an act by terrorist, not conceived by our government.

I do think It was ALLOWED to happen as part of the hoax to attack Iraq and keep their oil out of our market to increase the value of or own.

I think there is much more oil under Iraq than were are being told and certain companies will do whatever it takes to control that oil and control the market.




NAD: Talk about a couple of your projects, in five, six lines or less.


MONTY BORROR:

I'm working with Michael Annis at Howling Dog Press on a graphic novel called Messenger of the Covenant.

Ryan Nobles and I are nearly finished with the first book of Addicts (www.addictscomic.com).

I have a short story being published soon by Insomnia Publications.

You can also check out coldbloodedchillers.com and purchase Issue #2, which has a short story I worked on earlier this year.




NAD: What else would you like to add? What else should I have asked?


MONTY BORROR:

I love punk rock, David Cross, and Waking Life.

THE New American Dream Feature Interviews

If you search the archives below, you will find, in a sort of order [last to first], interviews with:


David Ray, Great American Poet

Jack Blood, radio show host, in Austin, Texas

Danny Schechter, A Real Reporter

Bob Kincaid, host, Head-On Radio Show

Tony Packes, Animal Farm Radio Host, Keeping An Eye on Big Brother

Richard Flamer, Working With the Poor in Chiapas

David Ray Griffin, 9/11 Truth activist author

Barry Crimmins, U.S. comedian, author, social activist

Bret Hayworth, political reporter for the Sioux City [IA] Journal

Lisa Casey, publisher of website All Hat No Cattle

Joe & Elaine Mayer, activist couple in Rochester, Minnesota

Fr. Darrell Rupiper, U.S. priest revolutionary

Whitney Trettien, MIT student, Green Party activist

Meria Heller, radio show host

Phil Hey, professor, poet

John Crawford, book publisher

Steve Moon, Iowa Bigfoot researcher

Carol Brouillet, California social activist, 9/11 Truth

Russell Brutsche, Santa Cruz artist

Kevin Barrett, professor, radio show host, 9/11 Truth activist

A'Jamal Rashad Byndon, social activist in Omaha

Chris Rooney, Vancouver, Canada Catholic Worker, website publisher

Marc Estrin, political novelist, from the left

Peter Dale Scott, poet, professor, author, activist

Anthony Rayson, anarchist zine publisher, works with prisoners

Alice Cherbonnier, editor of The Baltimore Chronicle, an independent newspaper

David Ray & The Great American Poem

I said I wanted to be a
writer, editor,
and teacher,
and, as Gary Snyder said
in “Hay for the Horses,”
that’s what I’ve gone and done.

David Ray Griffin’s evidence is hard to refute,

but Bush

(like Truman kept out of F.D.R.’s loop during the Manhattan Project)

may not have known what was going on.


We do know that men like Cheney and Rumsfeld

were eager for a casus belli for the war they’d already planned.

I am always awed by the ease with which most people ignore what they don’t want to see.

Evil relies on the denial and “positive thinking” of the masses.

F.D. Reeve writes:
"There is nothing like this book in American poetry today, for it is the skilled work of a craftsman whose fine ear and deft control distinguish every poem, all of which cry out against the barbarism of war and the stupid cruelties of those who make it. From the clever metaphoric transition of "The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier" to the deeply moving elegy to Wilfred Owen, this collection of intense lyrics shines with intelligence and passion."

Anselm Hollo: "In a time of imperial wars abroad and religious wars at home, David Ray's eloquent meditations speak to all who hope and work for change."

Philip Schultz: "Zbigniew Herbert uses irony to mask his great vulnerability in the face of oppression. David Ray uses a detached classicism to distance himself (and us) from the present horror. But the outrage is there, and the great sadness. I admire these poems, and his courage in writing them."

Dear Mike,

A confidential source in Washington has sent me a copy of this prayer which seems to be a text written by our former President, George W. Bush. I didn't know he enjoyed reading poetry like the one that evidently inspired him, one of my favorites by Philip Larkin.
I do not know if W. actually delivered this prayer upon his knees, but if so perhaps he did not pray hard enough. It's all a mystery. As you know, the war's being moved over now, so maybe there'll be some more prayers aimed at it, who knows?

Obamaly Yours,

David

IN THE NATIONAL CATHEDRAL

After John Betjeman’s “In Westminster Cathedral.”

Let me in this holy place
upon my padded knees
thank you, Lord, in this case,
for Victory, when you please.
My troops upon the distant sands
have nobly pursued the Muslim bands.

But I need much more support
for my latest surge, although
I know that You, God, are with us,
just testing our faith which now
and then wavers and must wait,
since you are frequently late.

With due respect, I must point out
that on some days I wonder
if you’re asleep at the wheel.
Where’s your lightning and thunder
that would scare the bejesus
out of hordes who disrespect us?

They blow up our Hummers
and shoot back at our men.
And why, I ask, do you permit
attacks on our brave women
and let the terrorists persist
in their attempts to resist?

Please bless my Legacy,
for if Satan should win
and we are obliged to retreat
he’ll get a vote for every sin.
If you give him a chance
all his devils will dance.

When I said “Bring ‘em on!”
I did not mean for a thousand
years like You Know Who did.
And Lord, just think of tears
poor widows shed for sons
who have bled in your holy war.

My troops upon the sands
have chased your Muslim foe
but in their filthy cities
as you know, they still hold out.
With due respect, Lord, you
allow too many of them to be born.

I must remind you, Lord, it is
your crusade as well as mine
and our pious Christian nation’s.
So please help us, I humbly plead,
with more concern for our Occupation.

It is in your hands and interest, Lord,
to bring about swift Victory, and I do
mean sooner, not later, lest I lose
that well-deserved Legacy. I know,
Lord, that You mean well, but to
be frank, you have led us into holy hell.


Signed,

Your Humble and Obedient President,
George W. Bush

(c) 2009 by David Ray


Listen to David Ray reading poems: http://voices.e-poets.net/RayD/

Recent books:
"After Tagore: Poems Inspired by Rabindranath Tagore"
"Music of Time: Selected & New Poems"
www.davidraypoet.com djray@gainbroadband.com

THE

New American Dream Interview

DAVID RAY, 76, is an American poet and author of fiction, essays, and memoir.

He is particularly noted for poems that, while being rooted in the personal, also show a strong social concern.

Ray is the author of twenty-one volumes of poetry, the most recent being "When" (2007), "Music of Time: Selected and New Poems" (2006) and The Death of Sardanapalus and Other Poems of the Iraq Wars (2004). A new volume, "After Tagore: Poems Inspired by Rabindranath Tagore" has just been released (2008).

Ray has taught at several colleges in the United States, including Cornell University, Reed College, the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, and the University of Missouri-Kansas-City, where he is professor emeritus.

He has also taught in India, New Zealand, and Australia, and has published books inspired by the cultures of each country.

Among other prizes, including an N.E.A. fellowship for fiction and five P.E.N. Newspaper Syndicate Awards for short stories, David Ray is a two-time winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America.

He and his wife, poet and essayist Judy Ray, live in Tucson, Arizona.

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The New American Dream Trivia Question

To win a round button that says, “Bush Is Lying About What He Knew,”
be the first one to correctly answer the following.

David Ray would rather be:

a. Back in Sapulpa, headed to Tulsa, with a harmonica and the clothes on his back

b. Drinking brewskies with Bukowski, in Boise

c. Somewhere with weather

d. Meeting Karl Rove in the alley behind the Chicago Bar on East Speedway Blvd

e. Reading to the masses in Washington Square Park

f. Visiting Bush every week in Leavenworth to read him poems from “Sardanapalus”

g. A high school sports reporter in Oklahoma City

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NEWS ITEM

Near the end of his reign
King George appeared
in the ruined city
to proclaim his pride
in having destroyed it.

Oddly, the citizens
did not applaud
their unwelcome visitor
this time, and one
even flung a shoe at him,
a protest long overdue.

Yet no one dragged
the tyrant out
into the squalid streets
and rubbed his face in the blood.

(c) 2008 by David Ray

NAD: David, hello, thank you for taking the time for this.

What was the name of your high school?


DAVID RAY:
Tucson High School


NAD: What was the school mascot name?

DAVID RAY:
It was and still is a Badger, but I don’t know its name.


NAD: What was on the list of activities under your senior picture in the yearbook?

DAVID RAY:
Astronomy, chemistry, Latin, and English, I’m pretty sure.

My book reviews sometimes appeared, as I was reminded decades later at a class reunion, in the school paper, The Cactus Chronicle.

I had a short story in a local magazine, Vista. In other words I’ve been in a rut all along, which seems fine as long as there’s more joy in it than pain that comes out of it.




NAD: What did you start out wanting to be?


DAVID RAY:

Professor Donald Bond in his Eighteenth Century Lit Class at the U. of Chicago asked us on the last day of class to write a page on what we wanted to be. I said I wanted to be a writer, editor, and teacher and, as Gary Snyder said in “Hay for the Horses,” that’s what I’ve gone and done.




NAD: Is there still time?


DAVID RAY:

You’d have to ask the doc.

It would still be dreamy to get some of my (completed and in-progress) unpublished books out, and be welcomed some of the places where I decidedly am not, but dreams recede at a remarkable rate, just as time speeds up at a scary rate as we get older.




NAD: Why do you do what you do, in six lines or less. Eight?


DAVID RAY:

I try to live up to Epictetus’ counsel (as I’ve quoted for years, going back to my first Who’s Who in America entry): “We cannot make others admire us. We must look to the curing of ourselves.”

I’ve tried desperately to accept and follow that advice, but clearly it is beyond my grasp.

“Try to be one of those on whom nothing is lost,” wrote Henry James, but I’d like not to heed that advice.

I’m far too burdened with what should be disregarded or ignored if one is to survive, and be accepted.

I am always awed by the ease with which most people ignore what they don’t want to see.

Evil relies on the denial and “positive thinking” of the masses.

HIDE AND SEEK

Pedophiles lure their cute prey
with candy and promise
of Disney World or carnivals
and a ride in a glitzy car
while recruiters roam halls
of high schools and seduce
with money and future tuition
and a chance to tour the world
dressed in handsome uniforms.

There is not one word of warning
that the return journey may well
be in a flag-covered casket
so beautiful that it is no wonder
kids volunteer to play the game
just to hide in that darkness
and upon arrival back home
pop up and surprise the hell
out of folks and may them all cry
for the rest of their lives, make
them all cry for the rest of their lives.

(c) 2009 by David Ray

NAD: Would you like to choose one of these to answer, elaborate on?

We don’t ask this to make fun. We ask because we really seek the answers.



— Did Bush knock down the towers?


DAVID RAY:

I wrote a lot of poems and essays about 9/11, some of which were in The Death of Sardanapalus and three anthologies that were entirely ignored though they had some terrific writing in them by better known folks than myself, but I don’t know that the truth will come out in our lifetime.

(My essay was in September 11, 2001: American Poets Respond.)

David Ray Griffin’s evidence is hard to refute, but Bush (like Truman kept out of F.D.R.’s loop during the Manhattan Project) may not have known what was going on.

We do know that men like Cheney and Rumsfeld were eager for a casus belli for the war they’d already planned.

Even if nothing was actively done, the suppression of very clear warnings makes the Bush Administration complicit. Those warnings were loud and clear.

Conspiracies are such a way of life that to exempt or not to expect them where callous murder is at the heart of all action (as of today’s news 33.33 per cent children as collateral damage is acceptable to those who do not object to righteous warfare) would be the big surprise.

Why wouldn’t people who want a war conspire if nice peaceable C.E.O.s do so regularly?

The corporations – oil, medicine, finance, insurance, tobacco, alcohol, the utility industries, you name it – are all conducted by conspiracy, so why not matters of more obvious violence, the kind that ends life with bangs as well as whimpers?

It’s always seemed strange to me that we don’t mind being killed with whimpers, but just confine our fears mostly to bangs.

You’re just as dead from air pollution or a poison pill as you’d be from a missile.




NAD: Is there a God?


DAVID RAY:

Everywhere and everything!

I believe in Gaia, everything’s alive, good news for us too, since otherwise our power to destroy ourselves might do some major damage to the solar system.




NAD: What makes you think that?


DAVID RAY:

Belated and reluctant spirituality, and my relationship with Grief.

I’ve been unable to shake Grief (and thus have enormous compassion for others, known and unknown, who suffer it – Emily Dickinson is a very pure example).

The skies open when you are suffering Grief like that for my son Samuel when he was killed in a horrible accident, but that grief was only a new chapter, since I had grieved deeply since birth.

I’d do anything to shake (and my writings and search through therapy and psychoanalysis have been my most constant effort), cure, or escape that addiction, that illness, but it is also the source of my deepest truth-seeking.

In Quakerism, reading, and meditation I’ve found enough quiet to slow me down long enough to hear some of the resonating positive forces in the universe.

It just seems too stupid to think that all the beauty and meaning around us – and we see only a small part of what is out there — is for nothing.

Obviously we are part of mysteries so much greater than those we know about that we are ill equipped to understand much.

What is truly amazing—and tragic if it doesn’t save us — is the extent to which human beings, standing on a speck, have come to understand as much as they have – at such distances and in such complexity.

Yet we’re still just scratching the surface, and it’ll be a shame if human stupidity cuts short the struggles of human intelligence for comprehension and even control of our destiny.

Equally incomprehensible is our collective permission granted to those who imperil civilization with bald faced lies and aggression.

Drinking almost
killed me.

My son’s drinking
got him killed,

and my pariah status today is no doubt to a large extent attributable to my behavior back when about anything I said
was offensive to someone.

NAD: Please tell us more about yourself, the things you have done, what you would like to do, what you did today. What do you eat, what do you drive, what do you drink.


DAVID RAY:

This morning I went to a doctor for consultation about medications.

I’ve been doing a lot of research on nutrition and amino acid therapy as a way of getting off SSRIs and other psychotropic drugs.

(I’ve also written a piece about a new book, "Poets On Prozac," and would like to match it with documentation from poets who have managed to get off dangerous drugs such as SSRIs.)

Then I took my daughter Wini’s birthday gift to the post office and mailed it Priority so she’d get it in time; then I visited a friend (Will Inman, whose last three poetry books Judy and I have edited — two of them for Howling Dog Press and one for Pudding House Press — and are trying to sell copies for his benefit. Will’s totally indigent and has been in a nursing home for several years.).

He literally lives for his work, dictates poems from his bed and wheelchair. Today I took him a can of Dr. Pepper, a chocolate bar, and some cassettes of his past readings.

Back home I did some writing, both revision and new work on poems and a story I’ve revised so often that it’s hard to find the type for the scribbled changes.

It’s nothing to brag about, but I have far more unpublished work than published, and I envy writers who have excited enough interest from publishers that they have little or no unpublished work which they regard as worthy of sharing with readers.

After lunch took a long walk with Judy and our dog Levi; later watched Judge Judy (a hilarious trip as the judge bounces up and down, tells both plaintiff and defendant off, and keeps telling everybody how smart she is).

We had some popcorn and gave dog Levi some, and I finished a book by the Nuala O’Faolain, a lively Dubliner.

Some of her run-ins with writers she interviewed for B.B.C. remind me of incidents when Judy and I, with Bob Stewart and Rebekah Presson, were producing "New Letters On The Air" back in Kansas City.

Nuala wisely remarked of Dublin literati that “there was too much anecdotal life and not enough personal lyric life.

There was too much drinking ... You would think that way of life had been designed to test people to their limits.

Certainly it could not be survived, only abandoned.”

She speaks my mind. Drinking almost killed me. My son’s drinking got him killed, and my pariah status today is no doubt to a large extent attributable to my behavior back when about anything I said was offensive to someone.

I was very sad to learn just recently that Nuala died last year of lung cancer, probably another great writer sacrificed to the booze and tobacco business. (Talk about conspiracies!)




NAD: Does your favorite coffee cup have words on it? What are they?


DAVID RAY:

“Arizona Illustrated,” the local TV program I’ve been on a few times.

Every time you’re on they make you take home another cup.

They must have ordered a ship load of them from China.



NAD: What did you absolutely have to get done by noon today?

DAVID RAY: Rewrite a short story I first wrote in India in 1982.



NAD: How about by Christmas 2009?

DAVID RAY: Revise afresh a short story I first wrote in India in 1982.




NAD: Is it frustrating to do what you do?

DAVID RAY:

Absolutely.

I really am a naive child, since I can’t quit.

In a poem in "Music Of Time," I foresaw a more peaceable kingdom, as if we’d be wise enough to leave the evils of the twentieth century behind and slam a twenty foot thick door on that stockpile of woe and world trauma.


Millennium Prayers

At the stroke of midnight we said goodbye
to a thousand forms of murder,

hoped they would each and every one
go out of fashion. We would pray

for another style altogether, abolish
a few pastimes that do nothing but teach

murder and torture. But all we did was change
the name of our School of the Americas

where leaders of death squads are trained.
Yet we wished for the thousand years past

to be sealed like a tomb, and we hoped
the years ahead would not be littered

with corpses. Oh, vain prayers, not the first
that men and women have uttered. Oh, grief

for the future that must be added to that
for the past. Oh, how we prayed for the brass

doors to be slammed forever on the abattoirs,
the horrors forgotten, our addiction

to them cured, the knowledge of how to inflict them
not even passed along as heritage. Lastly,

we prayed that the sun would come up
on nothing it would be ashamed to shine upon.

© 2006 by David Ray; from Music of Time, Selected and New Poems (Backwaters Press)


Obviously, I haven’t even learned that there’s little point in speaking up, that it’s all futility, but just as I long ago made an ethical decision not to commit suicide, I hold to my vow not to give up trying to use my voice to speak truth to power as well as to seek beauty and truth (the ultimate naivety — there’s a famous essay pointing out that Keats was a fool to believe that all we need to know is that Beauty is Truth and Truth Beauty).

One of Robert Bly’s best poems is a three liner beginning: “How strange to think of giving up all ambition!” A decade ago I wrote a poem that said virtually the same thing:


Tuning Out

Space becomes sacred.
Don’t wait for the grave.
A small shack will do.

Or perhaps none.
One cart for possessions,
none spilling over.

Just walking – an end
to that car crap, TV
crap, big house

and big chair crap,
stocked pantry,
bars on window,

gold coins, stocks
stashed, cards
the poor folks don’t have,

basement bomb shelter,
secret well kept.
More cactus, more sun,

less bought and more thought.

© 2009 by David Ray. This poem originally appeared in New Letters.



So here I am, trying to tune out but at the same time trying to tune in.

What folly!

And what hubris – I’ve even hoped to outlive evil, the ultimate and most egotistic arrogance. Do you think there’s a chance?




More David Ray

On Writer's Almanac
http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2006/02/04

Reading of a few poems by David Ray, recorded at the Vitalist Theatre in Chicago, 2008: http://voices.e-poets.net/RayD/

David Ray’s home page:
www.davidraypoet.com

Interview
http://www.cervenabarvapress.com/DavidRayinterview.htm

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Answer to NAD Trivia Question

f., final answer!

I’d like to think that, though we are at last able to say Sayonara to Bush, my poems in The Death of Sardanapalus and Other Poems of the Iraq Wars about him and the damage he and his cabal inflicted on humanity and the earth still have some validity and shelf life and appeal to posterity for their effort to understand how so much could have gone wrong so quickly.

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THE New American Dream Feature Interviews

If you search the archives below, you will find, in a sort of order [last to first], interviews with:


Jack Blood, radio show host, in Austin, Texas

Danny Schechter, A Real Reporter

Bob Kincaid, host, Head-On Radio Show

Tony Packes, Animal Farm Radio Host, Keeping An Eye on Big Brother

Richard Flamer, Working With the Poor in Chiapas

David Ray Griffin, 9/11 Truth activist author

Barry Crimmins, U.S. comedian, author, social activist

Bret Hayworth, political reporter for the Sioux City [IA] Journal

Lisa Casey, publisher of website All Hat No Cattle

Joe & Elaine Mayer, activist couple in Rochester, Minnesota

Fr. Darrell Rupiper, U.S. priest revolutionary

Whitney Trettien, MIT student, Green Party activist

Meria Heller, radio show host

Phil Hey, professor, poet

John Crawford, book publisher

Steve Moon, Iowa Bigfoot researcher

Carol Brouillet, California social activist, 9/11 Truth

Russell Brutsche, Santa Cruz artist

Kevin Barrett, professor, radio show host, 9/11 Truth activist

A'Jamal Rashad Byndon, social activist in Omaha

Chris Rooney, Vancouver, Canada Catholic Worker, website publisher

Marc Estrin, political novelist, from the left

Peter Dale Scott, poet, professor, author, activist

Anthony Rayson, anarchist zine publisher, works with prisoners

Alice Cherbonnier, editor of The Baltimore Chronicle, an independent newspaper

"Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid." — Goethe

____________________

"I call what O’Bomba is selling,
'The Mendacity of Hope.' "

____________________

____________________

Cheney was in the loop for sure.

So was Poppy.

Maybe Marvin too.

____________________

____________________

Clinton’s role in the 1993 WTC Bombings,
the OKC Bombings, Waco,
and TWA 800 needs to be questioned!

____________________

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We ALL have a voice!

____________________

I am just an old punk rocker, turned revolutionary.

THE

New American Dream Interview

JACK BLOOD, 45, lives in Austin, Texas.

For fourteen years — he has been a radio talk show host.

His program was recently pulled from the GCN network.

The reason given by GCN was ...

"They disapproved of one of my advertisers – Neo Cons Gone Wild — an animated satire of our political establishment – which they ( the GCN Sales staff) initially suggested to me.


"So I was pulled for airing an ad they contracted.

"It was likely for “personal” reasons as I had one of the biggest shows on GCN.

"More affiliates – and listeners than most.

"Biggest guests etc … I think that it was for the best, though.

"I am excited to be on www.wFUradio.com where I can broadcast uncensored for the first time in my career.

"The FU stands for Freedom Underground.

"We are up and running now, and the archives are free for all.

"Blood is going to re-launch from the WFU network."

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The New American Dream Trivia Question

To win a used T-shirt from Mike Palecek's book tour of 2007-2008, be the first one to correctly answer the following.
[The shirts are large, black or white, with a variety of anti-Bush messages, probably washed.]

You probably don't know that Jack Blood:

a. Plays the violin

b. Has a Go Sooners bumper sticker on his black SUV

c. Makes awesome vegetarian chili

d. Was a high school soccer goalie

e. Is the reigning spades champion of D-block in the Travis County Jail.

f. Once beat Alex Jones in one-on-one basketball, 20-zip.

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NAD: Jack, hello, welcome.

Are your parents Mr. and Mrs. Blood?


JACK BLOOD:

No that was my Great, Great Grandparent’s name. I Re-adopted it as they only had girls.

I only know of two other Jack Bloods, so I think it was a good choice.

My real name is Samuel Clemens.





NAD: Where are you from?


JACK BLOOD:

I was born in Seattle. But I have lived in LA, NY, Chicago, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Orleans, Phoenix etc..

Radio is a transitory existence.





NAD: In five lines or less, how did you find your way to the chair behind the microphone?


JACK BLOOD:

Well the chair has a homing device and I just follow the Beeps….

I was a Musician for most of the 80’s and 90’s.

One day while living in Providence Rhode Island, I saw an ad for radio producers in the local newspaper.

I had some experience having been a correspondent for KCMU in Seattle in 1983 … I not only got the job, but within two years I was running two 50,000 watt stations making a six figure salary.

I gave myself a radio show, FUZZBOX, in 1995 which was mostly commentary on Music and Culture.

In early 2001 (after Bush stole the election) DEADLINE LIVE was born.

The rest is history ….





NAD: Is that where you feel most comfortable?


JACK BLOOD:

Not really, I enjoy writing the most.

I am in the final phase of my radio career as we speak.

To read my crazy writing, go to www.deadlinelive.info


I am also working on an internet TV show, and putting together a worldwide activist group called PROJECT 1000. Look for that in March 2009.

____________________

"Stay BOLD America!"

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NAD: Do you find hope in Obama?


JACK BLOOD:

I don’t go on “Hope” – I call what O’Bomba is selling, “The Mendacity of Hope”.


He is surrounded by Trilateral Commission Ghouls, and has already appointed people who were involved in torture, and PNAC members to his Administration.

I expect much of the same with O’Bomba. It IS Bush’s third term after all. I supported Ron Paul, and then Cynthia McKinney for Prez.





NAD: Did you find hope in Clinton?


JACK BLOOD:

Like a sucker I voted for Bubba in 1992. (after 12 years of Bush Reagan we were all desperate!)

Later I found out that he was Poppy Bush’s business partner, and likely the illegitimate son of Winthrop Rockefeller.

I did some research on the Rhodes scholarship and Oxford, which introduced me to “Fabian Socialism”.

Clinton’s role in the 1993 WTC Bombings, the OKC Bombings, Waco, and TWA 800 needs to be questioned!

His new endeavor is CGI, The Clinton Global Initiative.

I suggest your readers check that out.

Every major elite power broker and controller is a member … This thing puts the Bilderberg Group to shame.





NAD: Would you like to choose one of these to answer, elaborate on?

We don't ask this to make fun. We ask because we really seek the answers.


— Are UFOs real?

Unidentified Flying objects are real. However I see no REAL evidence that they are being commanded by creatures from space. Keep in mind that a “threat from space” will unify the world, and could birth Global Governance.

Project Bluebird is studying just that (How to fake first contact).

Reagan was known to discuss this “solution” to an alien threat.

The odds for extraterrestrial intelligent life are really much longer than people want to admit.

That a technologically inclined being could exist elsewhere, and that they could travel here. Not impossible, but improbable.

It could be that the human species is nothing more than a freak accident. I just want to see the proof, if I am wrong I will stand corrected.



— Did we land on the moon in 1968?

After researching this for many years … I believe we did. I can see why folks think we didn’t though.



— Did Bush knock down the towers?

No – I believe he was largely out of the loop on this. The look on his face when Andy Card whispered in his ear says it all.

It was a black op that was above his pay grade.

Cheney was in the loop for sure.

So was Poppy.

Maybe Marvin too.



— Was Paul Wellstone's death an accident?

Absolutely NOT!

Wellstone was powerful enough to expose the USA Patriot act.

He would’ve been a BIG problem for Jr Bush.

I think Dr Jim Fetzer did a pretty solid investigation on this. www.assassinationscience.com



— Is Bigfoot real?

NO evidence.



— Is there a God?

I really don’t know. Unlike many, I have never talked to him or seen him (or her).

If there is a “god” it isn’t a dude in white robes in the sky.

The lore comes largely from Sun Worship in ancient civilizations I would say.

However I do have faith that there is something that is bigger than us. This is likely Waaaaay beyond our understanding as humans.

Science is getting kinda close though.


... What makes you think that?

My lifelong search for “god”, my study of every major religion, and my own scientific research …





NAD: What's it like to have a radio show, a large audience, a forum, a voice?


JACK BLOOD:

We ALL have a voice!

Mine is a bit louder than some.

The best thing for me is getting to grill people like Ollie North, Tim Russert (r.i.p.), Generals, and Politicians etc …

I just feel it’s my responsibility as an American to “Search and Repair” as I call it.

I get to help people, and I believe that I have been effective.

I have always said, that if I can reach just one person, I think it’s all been worth it.

That one person could be the next great patriot, ya never know.

But – I tell the Truth, and have a Big mouth.

I am soooo politically incorrect that I have scared off most of my audience over the years.

I can still reach a ton of people though with the help of people like you Mike. Thanks for that.





NAD: Is the daily show a grind? Do you ever find it hard to find things to talk about?


JACK BLOOD:

Yes. It’s really hard work, to be honest.

It takes a lot of time because I pride myself on being up to speed on current events. I also produce and engineer the show by myself.

Finding things to talk about is pretty easy.

Having the balls to say what needs to be said is tough for us all.

There are repercussions for telling it like it is.

My family has made a lot of sacrifices to back me in doing this.

Freedom is my reward!




NAD: Would you ever like to take a break from reading, and just not know what's going on for a while?


JACK BLOOD:

LOL … yes! We all need a break from time to time.

So I take a break here and there, and make sure that I have time to spend with my family.

I have a five-year-old boy that keeps me grounded.

But the problems facing the world, and this country, are too great to not stay focused on the job at hand.

I have had my fun … I have dedicated the rest of my life to the cause of Freedom.





NAD: Please tell us more about yourself, the things you have done, what you would like to do, what you did today.

In other words, what is your current passion? What did you absolutely have to get done by noon today?

How about by Christmas 2010?

____________________

... and then when they go to bed I work until about 4 A.M.

____________________

JACK BLOOD:

My Life is an open book, I am just an old punk rocker, turned revolutionary.

In many ways that is compatible. I have always questioned authority, and always tried to stay out of the “system”.

For instance, I have never had a credit card.

I have not had a driver’s license for at least ten years.

The culture we live in is driven by how ingrained we are into the established status quo. I reject this. Its up to us to change that.

My mantra is, “Decentralize and Repeal.”

My day’s are pretty boring really, very routine.

I wake up, answer mail, check all the news sites, and design that day’s radio broadcast.

I spend the evenings with my family (I work at home), and then when they go to bed I work until about 4 A.M.

Anyway, I know people are curious, but this isn’t about us …

This is about what kind of nation we will bequeath to our children.

We are in the middle of a revolution!

The end of the beginning has arrived.

So I am working with others to strategize what the next phase of the revolution will be, and how we can be successful in that endeavor.

Christmas 2010?

Hopefully we won’t be in a World War. I know that many, really good people are running for Office, and I hope to help support them.


As I already mentioned, I am ramping up a world wide activist group (PROJECT 1000) Which I hope to have running smoothly by this time.




NAD: What caused the financial crisis?

Did it have anything at all to do with spending millions of dollars a day on war? Is it Karma?

Is it someone in a room somewhere waving a magic wand?

Is it too complicated to understand?


JACK BLOOD:

I think that its pretty easy to understand once you get out of the groupthink, and propaganda of the Lame Stream Media.

I wrote about this when it hit us hard last September.

My first installment was THE MANUFACTURED “FINANCIAL 911” PROBLEM AND THE SOLUTION: MORE CENTRALIZATION AND REGULATION BY THE FED you can read it here: http://deadlinelive.info/?p=78.

Next I wrote: The Royal bailout Bluff - and the lemmings that Jump off it you can read that here: http://deadlinelive.info/?p=82

Then I wrote: GLOBAL FINANCIAL MINISTERS LAND IN DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - WILL THEY SAVE THE WORLD BY ENSLAVING IT? You can read that here: http://deadlinelive.info/?p=112

Yes, spending trillions on war was not helpful.

Borrowing money for everything under the sun, fiat currency, Fractional reserve lending …. But the “Financial 911” was, like the other 911, engineered to bring about more centralization, and legislation to bring about more control domestically, and to merge the USA into global parody.

Obama, Brzezinski, Kissinger, Scowcroft … have all talked about this.

We in the USA have had it too good for too long!

We must reset the world order to level the playing field (make room for the China’s of the world) and the financial crisis was necessary to do that.

Also, the inflation and deflation of the economic bubble has been strategically used for the last 100 + years to capture REAL wealth from the people.

It’s not enough that they tax us to death, they want it all.

So I agree with Robert Kiyosaki (Rich Dad Poor Dad) The failure was built into the system.

Part of the Treasury Dept’s new “blueprint” is consolidation of financial institutions. (Just as 911 was about consolidation of the intelligence community.)

Already, local credit unions in Austin have gone belly up.

This is substantial because local independent (of the Bank of International Settlements and the Federal Reserve) banking institutions that keep our money in our own communities, were a threat to centralized power.

It’s called “Cost Benefit Analysis”.

The Matrix Moles and Neo-Pharaohs as I call them, make sure that they benefit on multiple levels before starting an operation.

Cui Bono is always the question I ask … Who Benefits? How did Buffet, Soros, and Rothschild get out of the markets just in time?

Watch the Jimmy Stuart film, Its a Wonderful Life. Keep in mind that art does, many times ... imitate life.

It is exciting entering into 2009 because a real effort is being mounted to expose this, and to repeal the Fed Charter. End the FED! I predict that this movement will be huge this year!

And we need it.

True Free Market Capitalism has been replaced first with “Cartel Capitalism” and now with National Socialism. While we need to keep in mind that no system is perfect, ala … There is NO Utopia …

The Free Market gives “We the People” a chance to have our say.

The biggest problem has been that the people have grown, or been socially engineered to be lazy, and confused about matters of finance.

If we get another crack at this we will need to learn how to rise up and vote with our dollars (while we still have them), and we will need to empower ourselves with boycotts and strikes.

The future is up to us.




NAD: What else would you like to add? What else should we have asked?


JACK BLOOD:

Well I want to thank you again for the opportunity to speak to your readers, and encourage them to tune into www.wFUradio.com and participate in our debates at www.deadlinelive.info.

We are REALLY gonna need everyone going forward.

Stay BOLD America!!!!



More Jack Blood:

Jack Blood Interviews Steve Alten
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YgUiiqpqjs

Jack Blood at Ron Paul fundraiser
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZoZcfvI4eg&feature=related

Jack Blood interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqmInjrcagg&feature=related



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THE New American Dream Feature Interviews

If you search the archives below, you will find, in a sort of order [last to first], interviews with:



Danny Schechter, A Real Reporter

Bob Kincaid, host, Head-On Radio Show

Tony Packes, Animal Farm Radio Host, Keeping An Eye on Big Brother

Richard Flamer, Working With the Poor in Chiapas

David Ray Griffin, 9/11 Truth activist author

Barry Crimmins, U.S. comedian, author, social activist

Bret Hayworth, political reporter for the Sioux City [IA] Journal

Lisa Casey, publisher of website All Hat No Cattle

Joe & Elaine Mayer, activist couple in Rochester, Minnesota

Fr. Darrell Rupiper, U.S. priest revolutionary

Whitney Trettien, MIT student, Green Party activist

Meria Heller, radio show host

Phil Hey, professor, poet

John Crawford, book publisher

Steve Moon, Iowa Bigfoot researcher

Carol Brouillet, California social activist, 9/11 Truth

Russell Brutsche, Santa Cruz artist

Kevin Barrett, professor, radio show host, 9/11 Truth activist

A'Jamal Rashad Byndon, social activist in Omaha

Chris Rooney, Vancouver, Canada Catholic Worker, website publisher

Marc Estrin, political novelist, from the left

Peter Dale Scott, poet, professor, author, activist

Anthony Rayson, anarchist zine publisher, works with prisoners

Alice Cherbonnier, editor of The Baltimore Chronicle, an independent newspaper